Best cheap phones 2017: our top budget mobiles
Update: The Lenovo P2 is no longer available from Three so we've had to take it out of the best cheap phone list and the Blu Vivo 6 is now also too expensive to feature. We've replaced them with the ZTE Blade V7 Lite and the Sony Xperia E5 . In the past, the term 'best cheap phones' was usually a warning rather than a tempting proposition, with shoddy build quality, sluggish performance, laughable screen resolution and woeful cameras typically featuring on such handsets. But this isn't the past, this is the present, and the market abounds with top budget phones. While the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S8 , iPhone 7 , LG G6 and HTC U11 steal headlines around the world, there's a lot of intriguing (and cheap) stuff going on in the world of budget phones. Sadly, smartphone innovation isn't cheap – and most of it is reserved for high-end contract handsets. There is however such a thing as a good cheap smartphone, and ever so